Relates to increased participation in state contracts and subcontracts by certified minority and women-owned business enterprises; requires quarterly reports from contracting agencies; addresses consequences if contracting agency fails to comply with reporting requirements; relates to certain performance and payment bond requirements.
Sen. James Sanders
Sponsored bills
Creates the NYS entrepreneurial training act to provide grants to eligible applicants to support and train entrepreneurial candidates.
Relates to establishing a one hundred percent clean renewable energy system for electricity by two thousand thirty-four; such energy system shall include solar, wind, geothermal and tidal sources.
Imposes a progressive income tax structure for high income taxpayers.
Relates to the closure of hospitals; includes general hospitals, emergency or maternity departments or the surrender of an operating certificate.
Imposes an additional tax on income attributable to long-term capital gain.
Enacts The New Deal for CUNY; increases the ratio of faculty and mental health counselors to full-time students; requires that certain amounts of tuition be replaced by federal, state, and city funds.
Directs the commissioner of mental health to establish a maternal mental health workgroup to study and issue recommendations related to maternal mental health and perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders; identifies underrepresented and vulnerable populations and risk factors in the state for maternal mental health disorders that may occur during pregnancy and through the first postpartum year.
Enacts "the prison minimum wage act" relating to payment for labor performed by incarcerated individuals.
Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older.